National News

By Moses Kyeyune. The government has not provided funds for political parties in the 2018/19 National Budget. According to Section 14A of the Political Parties and Organizations Act, 2005, the government is mandated to contribute funds towards the activities of political parties or organizations represented in Parliament. However, the Electoral […]

By Samuel Ssebuliba. Government is seeking for additional Shs 8.1bn for conducting the Village Council election exercise that had been halted by court last year. While appearing before parliament’s Legal Committee yesterday, members included Mwenge South’s Aston Kajara and Busiro East’s Merdard Sseggona tasked the Electoral Commission team to explain […]

By Ruth Anderah. Hearing of Age-limit petition resumes this morning at the High Court in Mbale town. Today the Deputy Attorney General Mwesigwa Rukuntana representing government is expected to make more submissions convincing court why the presidential age-limit law should not be declared null and void. This is after last […]

By Ruth Anderah.  The case in which Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu commonly known as Bobi Wine filed before the High Court over a ban imposed on his musical shows by the Uganda Police force has been pushed to June 4th this year. The adjournment follows his lawyer’s failure to appear before Court […]

By Ssebuliba Samuel. In Kenya about 1,620 employees of listed banks in Kenya were retrenched in the past one year, a report has shown. According to a financial report released by Cytonn Investments, the staff were retrenched following closure of 39 bank branches across the country during the 2017 financial […]